![]() The Epic library offers a huge variety of titles for kids 12 and under from leading publishers like Scholastic, National Geographic, HarperCollins, and more. The ability to create student profiles and assign books, personalized recommendations based on students’ reading levels and interests, seamless progress tracking between in-class and home reading, and incentives like special badges and rewards for a job well done. Epic School is free for elementary school educators worldwide and offers access to tons of high-quality, educational children's books, including Read-To-Me books, audiobooks, and nonfiction. Badges and rewards to keep kids motivated. Personalized recommendations based on reading level and interests, 24/7 online access, as well as offline access for on-the-go reading, in-app progress tracking, and weekly progress emails. You can also enjoy reading a guest blog post from author Simon Cherry where he talks about what inspired him to write.- Epic Unlimited offers families access to 40,000+ popular high-quality books, thousands of fun, interactive learning videos, audiobooks, Read-To-Me books, quizzes, and Spanish-, French-, and Chinese-language books. Read more about them and how you can vote by clicking on the link above. The Lollies are book awards that celebrate the funniest children’s books. I reviewed this book as part of the Lollies 2017 blog tour. Thank you to Usborne for sending me this book to review. Their full names are highly entertaining too (although perhaps not to children): Chevalier François Cabernet Lalande-de-Pomerol and his companion, Plonque.Įddy Stone and the Epic Holiday Mash-Up is an hilarious, action-packed, off-the-wall adventure. ![]() Just writing their name makes me chortle. If I were to choose my favourite character it would be a toss-up between the grumpy penguin with aspirations to be a world famous stand-up comedian (he actually has some of the best lines in the book) and the miniature resistance fighters, the Raisins of Death. Along the way they also have to outrun and outwit the terrifying Barracuda Bill and his bloodthirsty crew (rival pirates on board the Scavenger). The four of them embark on their quest, solving clues, completing dangerous trials and collecting various items that will prove them worthy winners of the treasure. It’s a bit like a sat nav and it also spells out the different clues which will eventually lead them to the treasure. Their boat, the Codcake, started out as a snack bar but magically transforms into a sailing vessel. Their only other shipmate is a grumpy stowaway penguin. Amusingly, the frustrated ageing junk shop owner ends up as the Crew (assuming all of the roles except for Cabin Boy, which falls to Eddy). Their next mission is to hire a crew and commandeer a boat. Eddy and the Captain follow the dream’s exceptionally detailed instructions and find a treasure map, exactly as foretold. The pirate, Mad Bad Jake McHake (or Captain, for short), has had a dream that he will find the treasure map in a junk shop. So, when a pirate lands in his gran’s bath, Eddy doesn’t think twice about agreeing to join him on an adventure to find Grungeybeard’s buried treasure. The local children are unwelcoming and unfriendly. Sleepy Tidemark Bay is a dreary, run-down seaside resort and his gran is not much company. And yes, I did pore over the illustration until I found it!Įddy Stone’s busy parents have bundled him off to stay with his gran during the school summer holidays. I actually had to stop reading because I was laughing so hard about Frankie Halftrousers and his single buttock. Or at the other end of the scale there was the giddy, childish humour of fart jokes and pirates’ naked bottoms. Then there were the times when I simply smiled at the dry wit and clever wordplay. ![]() When I wasn’t guffawing, I was quietly sniggering to myself. Frequently the humour is laugh out loud stuff (which is apt as the book has been shortlisted for the Laugh Out Loud Children’s Book Awards). Eddy Stone and the Epic Holiday Mash-Up made me laugh.
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